Jeremy Corbyn's Meme Machine Has Blown Away The Tories In This Election's Social Media War
A cluster of Facebook pages loyal to the Labour leader racked up 175 million video views during the campaign, according to BuzzFeed News' analysis, pushing attacks on the Tories' handling of the NHS to the top of the online political debate.
Alex Spence
Facebook The Plaintiff: Why The Company Is Suddenly Suing So Many Bad Actors
The social media giant is trying to prove it can be trusted to police itself.
Craig Silverman
Exclusive: Facebook Fired A Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts
"This behavior is absolutely prohibited under our policies and the individual is no longer working with Facebook."
Craig Silverman
The Facebook Portal, Now With 80% Less Facebook
The best video-chatting device that nobody uses is now a little more palatable for the Facebook-averse.
Katie Notopoulos
Facebook Tells US Attorney General It’s Not Prepared To Get Rid Of Encryption On WhatsApp And Messenger
“People’s private messages would be less secure and the real winners would be anyone seeking to take advantage of that weakened security,” the company wrote to leaders in the US, UK, and Australia.
Ryan Mac
Running A Neighbourhood Facebook Group Has Become A Seriously Complicated Job
Untrained volunteers are running communities that are a town square, Neighbourhood Watch, and emergency information service all rolled into one.
Cameron Wilson
A 5-Year-Old Got Adopted And His Entire Kindergarten Class Came To Support Him
Michael's classmates had become like his extended family, according to his new dad, so of course they were there to watch him become part of a new one.
Brianna Sacks
NATO-Linked Researchers Bought Fake Social Media Engagements To Test How Facebook, Twitter, And Google Combat Manipulation. The Companies Failed.
A NATO affiliate carried out a four-month experiment into manipulation on social media websites. The findings are published in a major new report.
Alberto Nardelli
Facebook Said A Chinese Company Compromised Users With Malware And Then Ran Ads Using Their Accounts
The defendants allegedly used the accounts to run ads that often misused the images of celebrities to sell “counterfeit goods and diet pills.”
Craig Silverman
Kashmiris Are Disappearing From WhatsApp
Kashmiris enduring their region's ongoing internet blackout are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform's policy on inactive accounts.
Pranav Dixit
After Google Announced New Political Ad Rules, Michael Bloomberg Spent An Estimated $1 Million
That’s far more than the estimated amount Warren spent in November.
Alex Kantrowitz
21 Things BuzzFeed News Tried And Loved In 2019
Some of these things may change your life. Or not.
Scott Lucas
Facebook’s New Message To Political Advertisers Is All About Protecting The 2020 Election
Forget 2016.
Alex Kantrowitz
Republicans’ Conspiracy Theory–Ridden Counterprogramming To Impeachment Is Working
Nothing Republican Rep. Devin Nunes does during the hearings makes sense if you watch it in the moment. When it’s posted on Facebook later, though, it works perfectly.
Ryan Broderick
“Nothing Is Off The Table” For Facebook As Google And Twitter Crack Down On Political Ads
For now, Donald Trump and Joe Biden can target ads however they want on Facebook. How long will that last?
Alex Kantrowitz
Facebook Says Anonymous Pages Posting Coordinated Pro-Trump Content Do Not Break Its Rules
“I like positivity and like to follow all Trump media”
Craig Silverman
A New Class Of Angry Partisan Facebook Pages Are Dominating The Online War In The British General Election
While parties bombard voters with targeted ads, a bigger digital war is being fought under the radar between populist Brexiteer and Corbynite pages with massive audiences.
Alex Spence
The American Internet Sucks. The Alternative Is China.
In a fragmenting world, will governments choose ruthless digital order over chaotic digital freedom?
Joseph Bernstein
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
I couldn’t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.
Anne Helen Petersen
Australia's Internet Freedom Is Declining, According To This New Report
Internet freedom declined in the past year, says independent watchdog Freedom House.
Hannah Ryan
Before Mark Zuckerberg Tried To Kill TikTok, He Wanted To Own It
Three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg considered buying the Chinese company that became the basis of TikTok. Now he's demonizing it to make the case against regulating Facebook.
Ryan Mac
The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense Of Time
The rhythms of American life changed in the 2010s. How everything from TV to Trump to Instagram messed with your head just enough that time feels like it melted.
Katherine Miller
How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers
From San Diego to the Philippines, a Republican digital marketing entrepreneur created one of the biggest Facebook scams of all time.
Craig Silverman
She Stole Something While Struggling With Heroin Addiction. Cops Turned Her Into A Facebook Meme.
Wanted posters, the distracted boyfriend meme, #ThugThursday. Police departments have discovered how Facebook makes negative or extreme content go viral. Experts say it ruins people’s trust in cops.
Tasneem Nashrulla
How A Viral Article On Facebook Convinced Trump's Inner Circle They Had Found Their Very Own Ukrainian "Whistleblower"
Andriy Telizhenko has propelled himself from a minor functionary at the Ukrainian Embassy to a bespoke purveyor of conspiracy theories to Republican senators, Russian media, and Rudy Giuliani.
Ryan Broderick
Facebook’s Rebrand Is About The FTC, Not A Fancy New Font
The new “by Facebook” label won’t make it harder to break up Facebook. But it will let people know what products they’re using.
Alex Kantrowitz
Facebook Might Have Broken The Law By Sending Flowers To Politicians
The social media company is more used to dealing with software bugs than serious pests and diseases.
Cameron Wilson
Facebook Took Down These Pages For Being Linked To Russia, But It Didn’t Seem To Tell That To The People Who Run Them
“Facebook should be responsible in informing account holders that they will be named in an international coordinated campaign that threatens democracy in different nations.”
Jane Lytvynenko
A Teen’s Guide To Privacy
How to be a private public person as you’re figuring out how to be an adult.
Lam Thuy Vo
Your Dumb Tweets Are Getting Flagged To People Trying To Stop School Shootings
Schools are using a dragnet to scan social media for threats. They're finding a lot of jokes on Twitter.
Lam Thuy Vo
